Slamming the pro-Gorkhaland agitationists for carrying out frequent traffic disruption on the National Highway 31A, the sole road link connecting Sikkim with the rest of country, chief minister Pawan Kumar Chamling today urged the Centre to intervene in the matter to enable the people of Sikkim to lead a life of dignity and respect.
A state of lawlessness was prevailing in the Darjeeling Hills since 1986 on the issue of a separate statehood demand with the agitationists resorting to frequent blockade of the NH-31A that has adversely affected the economy of Sikkim and traumatised its people who have had to live in a state of fear, he said at the meet on internal security presided over by the prime minister Manmohan Singh at New Delhi.
The loss to the state economy has been to the tune of Rs1,000 crore because of traffic disruptions on NH-31A since 1986, Chamling said, an official release said here today.
Something needs to be done (uninterrupted traffic on NH-31A) urgently as the agitationists had sought to isolate Sikkim and its people at will and even on the slightest pretext, Chamling implored the Centre.
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